We've had comics for years and I agree with Jeff. I would put the comics out wherever they best fit into the collection. Most of your comic book readers are probably going to be older teens and adults. Sometimes kids are interested in our Teen comics mostly because they are slender and fun to read, but our hard-core comic people are going to be in the "new adult" and up category. Our demographic for American comic stories goes probably up into patrons in their 40s. -Kat Boyer Kat Boyer Interim Director Benton Harbor Public Library On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Anderson < Jeff.Anderson@monroe.lib.mi.us> wrote:
Marian,
Most of your comic book readers are going to be older teenagers through early Thirties. I don't think the mentality to keep up with comic books is really a children's thing anymore. Comics are written for all ages but the age with expendable income (people with job) is the group they are most made for. If you separate your collection into children's, young adult, and adult you could do the comic books the same way. We just have it separated as children and adult. Just take the comics that are obviously children (ones like looney tunes or mickey mouse) and make those for kids and everything else for adults. Avengers, Superman, and Teen Titan tends to have some blood in them and characters tend to romance each other and sleep together. It it not generally super graphic but it is enough I would keep them out of the children's section.
What can make it especially hard is that there might be a Batman comic that is based on the cartoon series and isn't too bad but then there will be a separate batman series that is much more dark and violent. So you can't just make a blanket judgement call about everything Batman. So again we just make the very obvious stuff for kids and everything else for adults.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me on or off list. I keep up with comic book as well as catalog them. Reading them really makes cataloging them a lot easier.
Jeff Anderson Collection Services Monroe County Library System 734-241-5770 ------------------------------ *From:* michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] on behalf of Marian Volek [marianvolek@yahoo.com] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 13, 2015 12:30 PM *To:* Michlib-L *Subject:* [Michlib-l] comic books
We've started to offer comic books, and are wondering if anyone else is--particularly, how are you cataloging them and displaying them. For example, we started getting Looney Tunes, and will probably put it in our junior area. Other titles we've ordered are The New Avengers, Superman, and Teen Titans. The requests for comics have actually come from adults!--so we're confused as to who will be taking them out--any suggestions? Marian Volek West Iron District Library Iron River, Michigan
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